Re: Can't play videos on my Nexus 7...

I bought my Nexus 7 primarily to play my own videos. I was unable to do so until I installed MX Player. Holy Mackerel! Now even my .wmv files play flawlessly, and I can control the starting point, too. Thanks for the tip!

Re: Can't play videos on my Nexus 7...

Re: Can't play videos on my Nexus 7...

OK folks,

I downloaded MX player and then downloaded a digital copy of a movie I was given for Xmas. I tried to copy it to the Nexus 7 and it states that the device will not accept the .wmv or support .wmv files and that I need to find a program that will convert the file before copying.

I downloaded MX player and then downloaded a digital copy of a movie I was given for Xmas. I tried to copy it to the Nexus 7 and it states that the device will not accept the .wmv or support .wmv files and that I need to find a program that will convert the file before copying.

HELP!!

My MX player plays MKV without sounds. I am using the professional Brorsoft Video Converter to tansform my mkv to Nexus 7 video formats and get the converted file to play. The tool make me satisfied, the quality is perfect for playback.

Re: Can't play videos on my Nexus 7...

My .avi files would not play initially using MX Player. I would click on a movie file and nothing would happen. To figure out which type of decoder to use, I held down a long tap on the movie file, a popup came up with several options, and selected Play using..... I then selected H/W decoder, and nothing happened. Went back and then selected S/W decoder, and the movie played fine. Then I went into settings and checked S/W decoder (local), and now all my movies play fine from the get-go.

In another thread DICE Player was recommended. I downloaded that app, and it plays all my movie files right away without making any settings adjustments.

Re: Can't play videos on my Nexus 7...

Sorry, I can't agree with you. A professional convert tool is not only can be used to re-format video to Nexus 7 movie format, also be worked as any other file format(MKV, AVI,WMV,MPG,MOV,MP4,MTS,MXF,MOD,VOB,ect.) converter for any other devices as you need.

Re: Can't play videos on my Nexus 7...

Originally Posted by jssqmaty

Sorry, I can't agree with you. A professional convert tool is not only can be used to re-format video to Nexus 7 movie format, also be worked as any other file format(MKV, AVI,WMV,MPG,MOV,MP4,MTS,MXF,MOD,VOB,ect.) converter for any other devices as you need.

hey, if you are happy, great.

But most of us have other things to do then spend money on apps to convert a file format which already plays fine with our default free player app (with all the quality loss and time consumed that process generally entails).

Re: Can't play videos on my Nexus 7...

Thanks for the warning. But I have used the converter for a long time(it is from brorsoft). It works fine with high quality and I can freely set the video/audio parameters to get the ideal quality and effect. The most important is that I can freely transfer MKVs, AVIs to my N7 and smartphone S3 for viewing.

I believe there is a perfect player app for Android, but it is hard to find.

Re: Can't play videos on my Nexus 7...

I'm not very tech-oriented, but my MVI_.avi and DSCN.asf videos that I had taken with digital cameras several years ago wouldn't play on my Nexus 7. So I d/l the free Dice Player app from the Google Play Store and now they all play nicely on the N7.

Re: Can't play videos on my Nexus 7...

Just get Dice Player. It's free, plays anything, has pop-up player, supports subs and multiple audio tracks. As far as I'm concerned, it's perfect. What is this with the converting nonsense??? This isn't IOS or Windows Phone!!! Come on!!

Re: Can't play videos on my Nexus 7...

Originally Posted by jjrdias

Just get Dice Player. It's free, plays anything, has pop-up player, supports subs and multiple audio tracks. As far as I'm concerned, it's perfect. What is this with the converting nonsense??? This isn't IOS or Windows Phone!!! Come on!!

The average Bluray runs about 36GB... Some of us "convert" to reduce the size to something manageable.

Also, many Blurays are authored with seamless branching. Resulting in many individual video files, all with randomly ordered tracks. As I am unaware of any android media player that can automatically parse the playlist folder in a BDMV file structure, you'd just get a bunch of random snipets of the movie mixed in with the hundreds of actor interviews and other extras if you tried to just play the Stream folder.

In another case, some people like to watch Amine (SP?) which, it is my understanding, the people that "upload" this stuff have taken to encoding it in 10 bit color with some rather impractical encoding settings (as much as 16 reference frames in some cases.) Last time I looked, your Discplayer doesn't support 10 but color (MX Player does though) and 16 ref frame encoding requires software decode and causes things to turn into a battery eating slideshow. So again, converting may be required to make the file manageable.